Middlewood Hall

Middlewood Hall is a large house, now divided into six dwellings, with a complex history spanning the 17th, 19th, and 20th centuries. A rear wall dates back to the 17th century, showing evidence of even earlier work in the lower courses, followed by extensive rebuilding in the early 19th century, with a later 19th-century wing added. The main range is constructed of ashlar sandstone with a graduated slate roof and lead ridges. The wing is of coursed, squared sandstone with a Welsh slate roof.

The main range is two storeys high with a three-by-three-by-three window arrangement to the front garden façade, increasing to three storeys at the rear. It has a deep plan. The wing is lower, consisting of two storeys and featuring two windows, alongside two three-light oriel bays on the first floor. The windows have been extensively replaced with 20th-century casements, and there are part-glazed doors.

On the garden front, a plinth runs at sill level. A shallow-recessed blind arcade with moulded imposts is visible to the central three bays. The right bay features a 20th-century door with overlight in a shouldered architrave with consoles, a pulvinated frieze, and a cornice. A similar surround is present on the window of the left bay. The central window is emphasized by an upswept, shouldered architrave and a pediment. The first floor windows are set within shouldered and eared architraves, with flanking canted bays projecting forward. The left bay’s outer windows are framed with architraves and a pulvinated frieze and cornice; the central window has an upswept, shouldered architrave and consoled pediment. Outer first-floor windows have large-pane sashes in plain architraves, while the central window features a shouldered and eared architrave. The right canted bay is similar, but with a 20th-century door in the ground floor centre. A moulded cornice and ashlar blocking course run continuously across the elevation, topped by a two-span hipped roof.

The wing, set back to the right, has an ashlar plinth and quoins to the right-hand side. Some ground-floor openings have been altered to accommodate two part-glazed doors and three windows. Two offset buttresses support moulded corbelling that holds two curved first-floor oriel bay windows, each of three lights and featuring moulded sills, cornices, and pierced balustrades. There is a further window to the right of each oriel bay. The right end of the roof slopes in a hipped fashion, culminating in a shouldered and corniced ridge stack.

The rear of the main range retains some 17th-century double-chamfered mullioned windows and dripmoulds to both the ground and first floors, showing some of the building's original features.